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The birth of plenty : how the prosperity of the modern world was created / William J. Bernstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.Description: xii, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0071421920 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.2222
LOC classification:
  • HC79 B47 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
A hypothesis of wealth -- Property -- Reason -- Capital -- Power, speed, and light -- Synthesis of growth -- The winners : Holland and England -- Runners-up -- The last -- God, culture, mammon, and the hedonic treadmill -- The great trade-off -- Mammon and Mars : the winner's curse -- The end of growth? -- When, where, and whither.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-401) and index.

A hypothesis of wealth -- Property -- Reason -- Capital -- Power, speed, and light -- Synthesis of growth -- The winners : Holland and England -- Runners-up -- The last -- God, culture, mammon, and the hedonic treadmill -- The great trade-off -- Mammon and Mars : the winner's curse -- The end of growth? -- When, where, and whither.

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